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Equipment & Gear => Power Equipment & RV => Topic started by: oldschool on December 10, 2017, 09:15:39 PM
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Can someone tell me if you can find out what the damage was and who repaired it?
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Carfax can tell you damage not repair person if I remember correctly risky buying something rebuilt. Hard to resell
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Walk away. Hard to resell. Insurance companies don't like them.
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Walk away. Hard to resell. Insurance companies don't like them.
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All the insurance companies i talked to had no problem insuring them for about normal rate, it was the banks that wont touch them
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update. found out this sweet looking 2012 gmc from mill creek area was repaired in somebody's barn in Ferndale. johnvh is correct walk away.or run
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I'd say Run
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Yeah, unless it was my vehicle that the insurance sold back to me after a crash, I would steer clear. One of our neighbors does this, buys them from the insurance company, pounds on them in his driveway for a while, hits the junkyard for parts, puts a new coat of paint on them and then sells them for not too much less than a clean title.
That's if you're lucky, just imagine the fun of owning a hurricane vehicle. They ship them well out of the area so people aren't thinking about the possibility the car was under sewage tainted salt water for a time.
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depends who rebuilt it. My dad has rebuilt several rigs over the years. But he's had a successful collision repair facility in Walla Walla for 40 years. I drove an '02 Grand Prix he found for me and rebuilt for many years. good car. It had taken a small airborne trip into a wheat field and through a barbed wire fence. straightened it up and a few new parts and i had a nice car for a lot less than a non-rebuilt. traded it in on the pickup i have now. dealer never batted an eye at the rebuilt factor, but i know used car dealers don't often lose money on a deal... :chuckle:
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Another thing, If you don't know who fixed it, or what the damage was, it could be a safety issue. Think about structural damage that wasn't repaired correctly. You could end up in a somewhat minor collision and it folds up like a pop can.
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Skip it - usually sheisty repairs from a chop shop.
